Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

- Augsburger, David

Best Quotes about Mistakes

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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Augsburger, David

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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao